Subj: Re: One of the worst enemies of Iron Man, a well-known name among fans and, yet, often forgotten as one of the greatest foes ...Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 at 10:00:16 pm EST (Viewed 258 times)

Reply Subj: Re: One of the worst enemies of Iron Man, a well-known name among fans and, yet, often forgotten as one of the greatest foes ...Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 at 06:00:50 pm EST (Viewed 251 times)

Part of the reason the Iron Man comic has often lost its way is the tendency to want to forget the capitalist and focus only on the inventor.

I find the opposite. Focusing on the capitalist was killing Stark before the movies came out. He had become this dry businessman/politician who only worked as the villain in other people's stories.

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That's because the writers don't get the capitalist side. "Dry businessman/politician" isn't necessary, it's just what these writers did. Howard Hughes wasn't dry. Real capitalists aren't dry. They're full of passion. "Let's build a railroad!" "Let's build a suspennsion bridge!" "Let's build a telecommunications network!" There's nothing dry about any of that. It's adventurous and bold and bigger than life. It's the spirit of the conqueror turned productive and pro-social.

Yeah, in the context of a comicbook, that's pretty dry. Much more important than my personal opinion: I can't find any financially successful movies centering on a portrayal of business as heroic. There's plenty of movies about evil corporate types being brought down or self-destructing, but no successful ones about them as heroes. (I don't count films like Iron Man and Batman because they just use owning a company as a plot-device in a story about an inventor and a detective, respectively) Indeed, one of the extremely few heroic businessman movies I have even been able to find, "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" flopped hard.